The Bass Saxophone (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Josef Škvorecký
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Satire
- Time of Work: A late summer and early autumn during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia
- Setting: A fin de siecle hotel in Kostelec, a Czech town in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
- Principal Characters: The Narrator, Lothar Kinze, The Girl from Moabit, Horst Hermann Kuhl, The bass saxophone Player
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Music or musicians, 1940’s, Oppression, Hotels, motels, or inns, Jazz music, Nazism or Nazis, Czechoslovakia or Czechoslovakians, Orchestras or orchestral music
- Locales: Bohemia, Moravia
The Novel
This novella has an autobiographical significance, for when he was sixteen or seventeen, Josef Škvorecký played a tenor saxophone rather badly fora band called Red Music—modeled after a Prague group called Blue Music.He and his companions, living in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, did not know that in jazz, blue was not a color. Although the name itself had no political connotations, their music did, for jazz was condemned by the Nazis for being a creation of American black musicians and Jews. Jazz had to go underground, becoming, in effect,...
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